ae RUBIACEAE 
exposed aig oa glabrous or somewhat barbed or hirsute on the angles. Leaves in whorls of 6, 
it 
3-flow cyme, orked and each branch h 1-3-flowered ; peduncles axillary, slender, sur 
jessie the saghtine hrackeate at base of cyme; corolla greenish, Pe 3m ya the | Lie fro earn 
fruit mm. broad, densely hispid with rather slender, long, hose hai 
In woods, ae Sonoran Zone to Canadian Zone; Alaska to southern ee ao across the continent; 
also in Japan, the Himalaya Mountains, and Europe. Type locality: Canada. April-Aug 
12. Galium oreganum Britton. Oregon Bedstraw. Fig. 5002. 
Galium oreganum Britton, Bull. —— Club 21: 31. 1894. 
Galium kamtschaticum subsp. oregan Piper, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 11: 526. 1906. 
Perennial with very pee creeping rootstock producing slender rootlets at the nodes; 
stems Sneed 2-4 dm. high, e rect or decumbent at base, glabrous or slightly scabrous on the 
mag a sh . 
ang Leav whorls 4 ovate to ovate-oblong or age et ic, acute or acut = ; 
the lower stem-leaves smaller tg the up 1.5- thin, 3-nerved, ciliate 
margins and often on the nerves above, glabrous below or esis hairy, ee towar a fie 
apex, the leaves of the oc poe lower branchlet obtuse; inflorescence from the upper axils 
and terminal, the terminating, ascending, peduncle- like branches rae or less peel branched, 
each yea bearing 6- owers; corolla greenish yellow m. wide, s 3-nerved, 
bout wide, acute at apex; fruit sparsely to meld ceeied “with et tistics: about 
4 mm. boon 
. Moist woods, Transition and Canadian Zones; Olympic Mountains and western slopes of the Cascade Moun- 
tains in Washing and a — in hackson and Josephine Counties, Oregon, and the . acent Siskiyou 
Mountain area, California (Bacigalupi). Type locality: Oregon. Collected by Howell. June— 
The related G. kambedhapicoe Steller differs by the oer ly Wectons es ered ert “bearing 1-4 flowers 
and also by the oval to orbicular leaves which are occasionally seen on specimens of G. oreganum only on 
axillary basal branchlets. 
13. Galium vérum L. Yellow Bedstraw. Fig. 5003. 
Galium verum L. Sp. Pl. 107. 1753. 
nial, from a creeping rootstock, with a slightly woody base, the stems slender, erect or 
ascendicat 1.5-9 dm . high, simple or with many short axillary geaee mooth or minutely pubes- 
cent; herbage darkening on drying. ae es in whorls of 6-8, aa linear, 6-20 mm. long, 
charter than the imernodes, about wide, roughened on the 7 oie Fe margins, usually be- 
coming deflexed in a : flowers yatlier pene the cymes in dense narrow panicles; fruit gla- 
brous, about 1 mm. a 
Ballast and waste places at Linnton and sparingly distributed in lawns of the Willamette Valley, Oregon, 
and Seattle, Washington; also reported from San Mateo County, California. Type locality: Europe. July—Oct. 
14. Galium molligo L. Wild Madder. Fig. 5004. 
Galium mollugo L. Sp. Pl. 107. 1753. 
nnial, glabrous throughout, the Se smooth or sometimes with spreading pubescence, 
difuselyt branched or erect, 3-10 dm. long. Leaves in whorls of 6, rarely 8, linear to oblanceolate, 
~s g, 1 5-5 mm. wide, cuspidate at apex, sometimes slightly rough on the margins; flowers 
bak any-flowered, panicled cymes ; corolla white, sa with purple, 2-2.5 mm. broad; 
ab iio filiform, monty. diva eS fruit smooth and glabro 
Waste places and lawns, sparingly introduced in British Columbia, oF around Portland and in the Willamette 
Valley, Oregon; along the fa i Humboldt out and — meeeaty in San Mateo and Santa Clara 
Counties, California; also in eastern Un . Sta tive of Euro er Sept. 
Gal atile L. Sp. Pl. 106; 1753. . onions perennial ase peaxes ay in whorls of 6 and trailing 
stems, the Aowering — ecuian. Pests at leafy panicles of white flow Reported from lawns in the Wil- 
lamette Aes Orego: 
Galium dae L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 155. 1762. Perennial with many stems, erect or nearly so, up. to 6 dm. 
weld ‘leaves xe ho ap of 6-8, glabrous, teleaateag acuminate, mostly about 3-5 em. long; inflorescence a loose, 
inal, bracteate panicle with a scending c capillary dicels; the flowers numerous, white; ‘troit arth Ee Euro- 
pad plant occasionally escaping yo cultivation in Salem, Oregon, and Pullman, Washington. July—Sept. Scotch- 
mist or Baby’s Breath. 
15. Galium oad L. Northern Bedstraw. Fig. 5005. 
Galium boreale L. Sp. Pl. 108. 175 
Galium septentrionale Roem. & pit et 3: 253: 1818, 
Erect, leafy, perennial herb, smooth and glabrous, simple or branched, often strict, 1.5-8 dm 
high. Leaves in whorls of 4, lanceolate or sometimes =e linear, 1-nerv ed or the lower broader 
leaves nerves: obtuse or acute, fee 2 toe ng, 2- slit wide, margins Seinetases ciliate ; flow- 
ers in compact terminal cymes f ormin ny-flowered sotto he corolla wn 3-4 mm. br oad; 
fruit about 1 mm. broad, hispid with short. facarced al sometimes glabra 
Borders of meaiows and Be ep woods, mainly Canadian Zone; Alaska south to enti and Shasta Counties, 
California, east a s the continent; also in lit and Asia. Type locality: Europe. May—Aug. Diets 
A pe tui Sissi species quite variable in width of leave and pubescence of fruit. G. boreale var. hyssopifolinm 
2 DC., with ibsos and G. borea edium DC., : h shor re 
or inc ay hairs, are ers toe that occur within our limits, as well as the species with its hon: salons. 
